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Truby, William F. – Online Submission, 2017
W. Edwards Deming has suggested 96% of organization performance is a function of the organization's structure. He contends only about 4% of an organization's performance is attributable to the people. This is a fundamental difference as most school leaders work with the basic assumption that 80% of a school's performance is related to staff and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Climate, Administrative Organization
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Recker, Jan; Alter, Steven – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Recent surveys of information technology management professionals show that understanding business domains in terms of business productivity and cost reduction potential, knowledge of different vertical industry segments and their information requirements, understanding of business processes and client-facing skills are more critical for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Information Systems, Information Technology
Metz, Allison; Burkhauser, Mary; Collins, Ashleigh; Bandy, Tawana – Child Trends, 2008
The implementation of programs and practices that reflect the best available research and evaluation is a new and very promising development in the out-of-school time field. However, successfully implementing a new, evidence-based program or practice is a major challenge for practitioners. This challenge is due, in large part, to a lack of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Implementation, Evidence, Administrator Effectiveness
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Jamali, Dima; Sidani, Yusuf; Zouein, Charbel – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to survey the various measurement instruments of the learning organization on offer, leading to the adoption of a tool that was considered most suitable for gauging progress towards the learning organization in two sectors of the Lebanese economy, namely banking and information technology (IT).…
Descriptors: Banking, Systems Approach, Measurement, Information Technology
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Jamali, D.; Khoury, G.; Sahyoun, H. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To track changes in management paradigms from the bureaucratic to the post-bureaucratic to the learning organization model, highlighting core differentiating features of each paradigm as well as necessary ingredients for successful evolution. Design/methodology/approach: The article takes the form of a literature review and critical…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Literature Reviews, Systems Approach, Change Strategies
Koehoorn, Mieke; Lowe, Graham S.; Rondeau, Kent V.; Schellenberg, Grant; Wagar, Terry H. – 2002
Insights from a variety of research streams were synthesized to identify the key ingredients of a high-quality work environment in Canada's health care sector and ways of achieving high-quality workplaces in the sector. The following sets of interacting factors were considered: (1) the work environment and the human resource practices that shape…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Research, Employer Employee Relationship